I'm a bit of a control freak, so I always appreciate being inside the nuts and bolts of the music - I don't like newer programs that paper over your cracks.

There was a time when beheadings were in the public mind because people around the world were getting their heads cut off for various reasons.

I hope nobody I wrote about becomes too upset.

What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing.

I got really paranoid, burning every song onto three CDs and hiding them in various places around the house just in case I got burgled and there was, y'know, a fire in my bedroom. I told friends where I was hiding them in case I was killed.

The nice thing about working for a label like Domino is that there's no pressure: They've got a roster of 40 active bands, and they can bang out an album or single in a week, so it's not the end of the world to not have a Max Tundra album in 2005.

Usually I'm only using my instruments when I'm recording or playing a gig.